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Pentecost
National Catholic Reporter, June 18, 2004 by Pat Chaffee
Pentecost So much red--peonies, vestments, silk pendent from the pulpit tongues of fire, language translucent and hot, like ton in a smith's tongs, like a bush burning a name into flesh. I was bitten once, by a cat, and the poison moved up my arm. Theophanies spread in the blood, and no antidote can cool the fever. I spin in the wind that brings the tongues: my red skirt flares out when I whir! like a Sufi dancer, one palm up to receive from God, the other down to give the given.
--Sr. Pat Chaffee, OP
Fayetteville, Ark.
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